I need to put on my britches - instead of pants.

No one says "rubbers" anymore - condoms.

Galoshes

You know the Greatest Generation

I kind of miss it. "Only trouble is, Gee Whiz. . . ."

Like “Gonna grab something outta the icebox and chill in front of the Dumont.”

On the regular I use blimey, sure and begorah, shiver me timbers…

Stuff like that.

... telling how when she was a little girl, the ice man would give them a few ice slivers as a treat in the summertime

That is so... heavy.

… go stretch out on the Chesterfield and take a nap.

But she's a teacher so has to watch what she says. The kids love that phrase and giggle when she says it.

with the death of Harry Carey decades ago.

Rizzuto was an announcer for the New York Yankees for ages. I think he retired in the 1980s.

Worked with Bill White for a long time, Frank Messer, too.

Never realized Drew Carey is his son until I saw this photo.

Because they are not father/son.

Hard to tell via the innerwebz, but maybe you meant that in jest.

"Holy cow!" (and other similar terms), an exclamation of surprise used mostly in the United States, Canada, Australia, and England, is a minced oath or euphemism. The expression dates to at latest 1905.[1] Its earliest known appearance was in a tongue-in-cheek letter to the editor of the Minneapolis Journal: "A lover of the cow writes to this column to protest against a certain variety of Hindu oath having to do with the vain use of the name of the milk producer. There is the profane exclamations, 'holy cow!' and, 'By the stomach of the eternal cow!'"[2] The phrase appears to have been adopted as a means to avoid using obscene or indecent language and may have been based on a general awareness of the holiness of cows in some religious traditions, particularly Hinduism.[1]

It may also have been adapted from a Gaelic phrase, holy cathu, meaning "holy sorrow."[3]

…”peachy keen” from disappearing.

She was not a fan.

They may be old, but they are NOT mature, stable or trustworthy.

"Turntable" sounds like it should have been first.

You mounted the cylinder on a spindle that spun, and lowered the record needle on a pivot to touch the rotatiing outside of the cylinder. The needle fed the sound to a big horn hanging from an arm over the spindle. So, no turning table.

Some people are trying to keep it alive...

( there is a surprisingly vibrant secondhand market for vinyl albums, I was shocked at how much money I got dumping my old ones at the recycled records store )

Our kids are not selling any of her vast (500+) collection of early '60s through '80s vinyl. They consider it a retirement investment. I was amazed at the demand.

Depending upon the rarity and condition

During my research on the resellability of them, I saw some staggering prices paid for some
of the most rare and sought after ones

...was a red translucent 45 Elvis record with a Sun Records label. Not mint but very unique. Might be worth a bag of groceries someday 😌.

be Scandinavian. Maybe I'm thinking of
"Yumpin' yiminy!".

childhood...or maybe an old movie on TCM.

that I only have a dim memory of them.
Good reads. I was about 14 or so and definitely was drawn by the titles...The Call of the Wild, The Sea Wolf, etc. Who could resist...

Console organ. A million buttons and switches plus a rhythm box. But, I sounded weak compared to my dad's Hammond.
One of the schools where I sub has a Wurlizter piano. Not in very good shape, but the guy they bring in can still tune it. Wurlitzer never had good action, but their spinets were very affordable so lots of people had them. Like my aunt & uncle.
There was a store in the town where I grew up that was all Wurlitzer & Fender.
After Gibson bought Baldwin, who bought Wurlitzer, they quit making instruments with that name on them.
Their only products appear to be jukeboxes.

At Radio City Music Hall. When I was younger they would turn the lights on over it and then the Rockettes would come out.

I read a book about those huge theater organs made by Wurlizter & Kimball.
In fact, I'm pretty sure that the RCMA organ was the Kimball design & layout but built by Wurlizter.
I got to play a big pipe organ a couple of times when I was a kid. 12 or 13 y/o as I recall.
When the volume pedal is pushed, you can just feel the sound.

Making whoopee

Jive turkey

Here's a dime. Call somebody who cares. (A dime ain't getting you much of anything these days.)

As nervous as a long tailed cat in a room full of rockers

You bet your sweet bippy!

Six of one, half a dozen of the other (My dad used to say that a lot.)

Bob's your uncle

And my mom loved six of 1/2 a dozen of the other. And kids today probably wonder where the expression “drop a dime on somebody” came from

has a whole different meaning nowadays…all together (gratuitous Airplane reference).

And who says “nowadays” anymore??

That's British slang, I believe...I first heard it on a British TV series and found it hillarious!

No pay phones and even when there were pay phones, no longer a dime

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I said that once in front of some younger people who had no clue what I meant. Seems to me that it is self-explanitary, but perhaps they never heard of a china shop.

Speaking of china, who says they are using the "good china" any more? How many people still have a set of china?

haha

to being my every day china. I love it. I'm only sorry I didn't do it years earlier. The pattern is Royal Doulton Tonkin.

I would be using it daily.

I got $1,300 for the entire collection. Gorgeous pattern but too hard to keep up any more.

It’s your nickel - after calling her, which means talk as long as you want because I’m the one feeding the pay phone or paying the phone bill.

He pulled a shrewdie on me - when someone pulls a fast one on her

Damed if you do, damed if you don’t - no good choices

Tan your hide - get a spanking

Month of Sundays - a very long time

Skedaddle - leave in a hurry

Long tall drink of water - a handsome man

I just realized that the explanation to my first two, pay phone and pulled a fast one, are also no longer in use. I guess I’m officially old.

Edited to fix typo

The bathroom, "the water closet".

"WC paper" on the shopping list.

All 3 of my kids adopted it.

got some strange looks and a few chuckles after I said this to the Google Fiber installers

They never heard of it

My mother-in-law said that all the time. How did she know the temperature of a well diggers ass? I never asked.

Mom was from rural TX and she and her family used phrase a lot but no one else does anymore.

"the back 40" because our yard is so small. Growing up in the 1950's it was a common expression on tv western shows that my parents always on. I'm from California.

Like something you'd say if you were a kindergarten teacher.

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A fine how-do-you-do.

Wake up and smell the coffee!

Dollars to donuts.

Referring to an unmarried woman as an “old maid”. (Thank God that one is not used any more).

... from a great scene in the first sequel to Alien, Aliens?

He loves both of those movies!

I ain't no fucking dude, "Woke"

Mr. Diamond still says “flick”. It drives me up the wall.

I don't even know what that means or when everyone started saying it. It sounds like a capitulatory phrase when you're at a loss for more eloquent words.
Everybody says it though, and I can't change it. I guess it is what it is.

Oops, scratch that one. It just might get you impeached!

I used to here it a lot at work mostly from people who feel like they HAVE to say something.

That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

Twofer!!

...my grandfather used both .

That was a California phrase my grandma and her sister used. If you lived far from the city you lived out in the tules, which were California's Central Valley marshlands before they were all drained and converted to farmland.

There were some derogatory connotations to it, not quite so harsh as "rube" or "bumpkin."

I may get smoked for saying it but, a looong time ago I heard this phrase expressing anatomical appreciation, "she has a nice hitch in her get along." Okay, I will leave quietly.

and not too many I don't. I swear i've said 75% of these in the last month.
Golly ! (I hear that in Clara's voice in back to the future 3)

One of my faves.

also Faaaar f*cking out.

Too cool. Too cool for school.

Total bummer.

He's such a winner (meaning loser)

Also, what a drag.

instead of "far out" and "out of sight".

Malarkey - thanks to Joe Biden
Shenanigans - not sure why it’s back, but I love it

I get the idea, but there are so many other ways to convey this reaction that aren’t quite so repulsive, nauseating, sickening, disgusting….

That's like the Pot calling the Kettle black.
Make like a tree and leaf.
See you later alligator, after while crocodile.

Made their bed, now they have to lay in it

Lay down with dogs, get up with fleas

Their chicken has come home to roost

A bun in the oven

Play fast and loose

Handsome is as handsome does

My Mom and Dad both liked 'Wish in one hand, sh*t in the other and see what you have more of'

I like the old phrases and I'm always on the lookout for ones I haven't heard.

See which one fills up faster.

Hope you do a re-post with a collection of these. (There is probably already a book/web page out there.)

"May I help you?"

"I see your side of the argument and we should discuss it further."

"I have enough." (A particularly obsolete phrase that seem to have zero meaning for anyone in this country.)

"We need to look at the big picture." (If we did that, we'd see just how insidious those rethugs have been, so they got rid of that concept.)

And one of my all time favorites... an Irish prayer that means as much today as it did back when it was created.

"From ghoulies, ghosties, long-leggedy beasties, and things that go bump in the night, Great Lord protect us!"

I used to hear the older people say this all the time way back when. We surely need it now.

(That's the bowdlerdized version). It refers to a female of aesthetically pleasing figure.

-- Mal

Red up the house (when straightening up the house for unexpected company)

If anyone calls, tell them Barnaby said hello (if you're from Cleveland you may have heard this)

The Stoop, when referring to the door step (might be a pennsylvania thing)

50 cents to see the elephant jump the fence. (when asking for ice cream man money)

These were some of my mom's sayings.

"Road hog!"

Help me buckle up my shoes

"Three four open the door, five six pick up sticks..."

Also, "By Jove!"

It's almost got 2000 views right now, and 115 replies, but only 14 recs

Was that Jed Clampet's phrase in The Beverly Hillbillies ?

she would tell us to Put some hustle in that bustle. IOW Stop dragging your ass hand hurry up.

I never hear that anymore !